Whether you call it Shavuoth, Shavuos, Shevuous, Shabuoth, the holiday has both agrarian and educational origins.

The Bnei Menashe are a community of around 10,000 people from the Kuki, Mizo and Chin tribes of northeast India who believe they descend from one of the Bible's ten lost tribes.

For a river, the Euphrates has developed a surprisingly dramatic reputation over the years. Civilisations rose alongside it.

Being Jewish often felt like living in two parallel worlds, one in which my traditions mattered deeply, and another in which ...

For anyone who isn't familiar, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient manuscripts discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Dead Sea in ...

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

When I first became co-director of an archaeological project at Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan in 2018, I was amazed by the ...

Hidden beneath the ancient stones of Jerusalem, a discovery is unfolding that threatens to rewrite history and trigger a prophetic sequence watched by billions. On May 5, 2026, archaeologist Dr. Chris ...

A shepherd boy's lost goat led to a monumental discovery in 1947. He found ancient pottery in a cave near Qumran. Inside, he discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls, a hidden library. These scrolls offer a ...

For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the ...